Sorry its taken me so long to respond. Lol. He did end up beating me although now that ive read the rules and blog closer im almost certain that he should not have been able to build a major in Kiangsu, so his play doesn’t really work. Basically his strategy was to keep the us out of the war as long as possible. With Germany did the usual opening and then pushed into Russia looking to hit Moscow turn 7. With Italy he also coordinated to hit Cairo on turn 7. With Japan he built a minor then a major in Kiangsu then pushed as many tanks mechs and planes as he could through up to Moscow which he would also hit turn 7. On J1 he built a carrier, and then for the next few turns his starting naval units seemed to be moving towards India. To me it had seemed like his Japan was doing better than his Europe so as America I devoted most of my resources to the Pacific spending 17 IPCs more than him on the pacific board until turn four. When his huge Japanese fleet sailed right past India and hit Cairo on turn 7.
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